Notre-Dame

Cultural room
Closed to the public
Open for free or ticketed events (concerts, shows, screenings, conferences, etc.)

Old church

Rebuilt at the beginning of the 18th century on an earlier building, the church retains a Romanesque bell tower in the south-west corner. Its layout, with communicating chapels flanking a single nave, a transept that does not overhang and a shallow choir, was inspired by the Roman churches of the 16th century, the most accomplished example of which is the Gesù, the mother church of the Jesuits. Like many of the city's buildings, it fell victim to the great fire of 1825, which burnt down the organ and its gallery. Transformed into a multi-purpose community hall in 1998, the building has nevertheless preserved its large polychrome wooden altarpiece dating from 1710, restored in 1988, which spans the three sides of the chevet. Several works of art that once adorned the church have been deposited in the Slins museum by the diocese of Saint-Claude; These include a precious 16th-century chasuble, the oldest preserved in the Jura department, as well as the paintings of "The Adoration of the Magi" by Pieter Brughel the Younger (1564-1637) and "Saint Magdalene Repenting" by Nicolas-Guy Brenet (1728-1792), donated to the parish in 1780 by this member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in memory of his father, who was originally from Salins and baptised here in 1701.